On 08/01/2018 03:00 AM, Ed Cashin wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 3:12 AM Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx > <mailto:hare@xxxxxxx>> wrote: > > Use device_add_disk_with_groups() to avoid a race condition with > udev during startup. > > > I love the idea of getting rid of the race, but I am having trouble > seeing what happened to the cleanup we had via sysfs_remove_group. > You're storing a pointer to groups off the device, but I don't see it > getting > used for cleanup later in this patch set. Are you patching linux-next? > And that's the beauty of this patch: you don't need to free/unlink the groups yourself. Unlinking is done in the driver core via device_del()->device_remove_attrs()->device_remove_groups(). So no separate patch needed. Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke Teamlead Storage & Networking hare@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: F. Imendörffer, J. Smithard, J. Guild, D. Upmanyu, G. Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)